My relentless pursuit to do decent editing.

[Pswirley]

Please don't try to church it up and please don't get too technical with your terms. Just tell me what you like and what you dont like and how I may go about fixing it.





















And the lols I came back to.

[SeanDub]

Your pics look good to me!

But I'm no pro.

[M.Burroughs]

#1 doesn't do much for me. It's nice, but I don't like the left weighting of the composition. The building is weird too- the oversided doorway combined with the distortion makes the windows look super tiny and the doorway normal.

#2 is nice. The editing doesn't do much for me, but the composition is nice, as is the exposure. Some dodging on the trees would help IMO.

#3 is cool. I dig. With the right post, it'd be a very nice shot.

#4 is meh. Does nothing for me at all.

#5 has the right idea, but nothing really to look at. No real point of interest.

#6 is nice. I like it. Very "california". It's a little lacking, but a nice image nonetheless.

#7 looks strangely distorted.

#8 is in need of a different crop. More on the building, more zoomed in. In its current state I don't really know what I'm looking at.

#9 is a cool biulding, but as a photo is has room to be improved on. Again, shoot it straight on next time. Get the bottom of the building in frame too.

#10 I like. No real complaints.

[Pswirley]

Thanks Mike,

I guess a better asked question would be, pictures and composition aside, is the editing contributing to or detracting away from the quality of the photo. I know they could be better, I am still at the point of not fucking them up.

[Pswirley]

Here is a go on an older picture.

[southpaw]

hahahah

2 peas and a tripod.

loved that shoot

[Pswirley]

[B Rod]

Definitely digging this one.

[SeanDub]

I agree with Bryan

[Dutchy]

I like colour. Add more colour?

I tend to play with saturation, brightness/contrast, shadow/highlights, and exposure>gamma.

[səˈprēm]

jpeg compression i always keep at 95

[Pswirley]

I compress in PP before they go to photobucket.

I compress to 1024x6--

One of those shots has a 300% crop on it that makes it look kinda crazy.

[junjdm]

lovin the LM's....

[Pswirley]

Thanks.

They are a pretty good rep. I am on the quest for real LMs but I suck at wheel hunting.

[wkohler]

Looking at those first photos, there's one thing you need to do when photographing buildings. If you don't have a perspective-correcting lens (most people don't and couldn't afford one), you need to use the perspective crop feature in Photoshop. Some of those photos were pretty good, but I was more annoyed with the crooked buildings, so I didn't focus on the rest of the photo.